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How about: the dude she runs into is a servant aboard the ship, but is also the heir to the warring Ninja faction's throne, and a Ninja spy! He tricks the scallywags into thinking Camilla is important - "she's the key to obtaining a legendary hoard of treasure!" Naturally, they figure they might as well try it and kidnap her (Magell sneaks along for the ride).

Days pass! The secret prince feels guilty for using Camilla like this (even though the pirates are mildly polite and take good care of her).

They arrive at the fabled cavern on an island, whose mountains of gold is hidden away behind a door. This barrier can only be opened by true royalty, or so the legend goes. (insert fairy tale about the treasure belonging to a rich dead dude here.) It's never been tested, since everyone knows pirates aren't close on the family tree to kings and queens, and actual rulers are too well guarded to be taken.

(The pirates wonder why it was so easy to kidnap Camilla. They don't wonder for long; it hurts to be deep in thought.)

Because pirates need their sleep, they take the night off and decide to try in the morning. The nameless prince sneaks off.

Camilla watches him go, confused at the servant's actions. They were almost friends at this point. She follows him! She lurks as he tries to open the door and fails! He heads back to the camp, frustrated at himself.

(He was sure, being an actual prince and all, that he'd be able to get to the treasure.)

She stays and heads for the door herself!

Her hand reaches for it....

...suspense....

...intense descriptions of the surrounding areas...

...waiting for the perfect moment to reveal that

SHE can get in! Somehow, she's royalty!

Because the wild animals that raised her consider her their princess, and her bond with them is stronger than the prince's ties with his family (he's actually not doing this for them, but planning to take the gold for himself).

...

After that, I don't know. This plot kind of just... happened. XD

I wonder what she'd do with the gold? Give it to the pirates anyways? Build a sanctuary back at home? Start a wildlife charity foundation??

Um. For now it'll be something extremely small, pulled out of an in-progress piece... since most of it's unedited. And I'm not at a desktop, thus ease is not on my side.

The North Star shone so unremarkably in its place far above him. Danny could clearly see the constellations and asterisms that riddled the deep, dark fabric of space — within sight was Orion's Belt, three twinkling stitches in the very midst of four.

Ursa Major caught his eye; gracefully stretched to cover a magnificent portion of the heavens as well — shining, glimmering over his head. The celestial objects emanated a sort of higher glory from where they rested, there — in the vast, otherwise empty, expanse.

They cried with him. They cried endless tears of shooting stars, pulsing and streaking across the sky and beyond the earth, glimpses of white piercing the veil. Echoing sorrow in his pained, strained core.

Dipper Pines was somewhere up there, Danny was sure. Somewhere, watching his mourning twin sister from a throne of bright starlight.

aka: in which the Gravity Falls fandom deeply regrets inviting me to the party